The duo met shortly before D-Day, when Morris was 17 and Thomas, a parachutist with the 101st Airborne, was 21.

Thomas previously told INSIDE EDITION that he and a buddy were in a London suburb, on a bridge overlooking the Thames, when they spied two young women "down on the river in a boat."

"So my friend and I walked down and suggested we rent two boats, so they could row us around for a while," he said. The line worked.

"From there it developed into something much more intense," he said.

But after Thomas shipped out, they went their separate ways. The pair wrote letters to each other and Thomas asked Morris to travel to the U.S. to marry him, the Associated Press reported. But Morris misunderstood and thought he had found someone else, so she stopped writing to him.

Both eventually married other people.

Thomas' wife died in 2001, while Morris divorced her husband after 30 years.

Then last year, Morris asked one of her sons to look for her former flame, and they found his name in a Virginian-Pilot article about D-Day.